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03-26-2011, 02:24 PM
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Ohio Man Gets a $16.4 Million Cable Bill
Based on the cable bill that DeVirgilio received this week, he's either the king of pay-per-view, or the victim of one of the most extreme computerized billing glitches in the history of computerized billing glitches. Fortunately for him, it looks like it's the latter. When the Ohio man's attempt to make a payment on his cable bill to Time Warner was rejected, he learned that the company had calculated his past-due amount at more than $16 million. "All I want to do is watch March Madness," DeVirgilio, whose bill usually runs around $80 a month, told the Dayton Daily News. The paper says DeVirgilio did the math and concluded that he'd have to order 1.6 million on-demand movies or a pay-per-view fight 400,000 times to accumulate $16.4 million in charges. But at least he's maintaining a sense of humor about the whole thing. "Had I known this I would have bought Showtime," DeVirgilio, an engineer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, told the Daily News. For its part, Time Warner issued a statement apologizing for the error and said that they're "going to work with the customer to get this resolved." While the dollar amount of DeVirgilio's billing ordeal makes it among the more egregious in recent memory, the kings of all billing mishaps have to be a Texas man and a New Hampshire man in who received quadrillion-dollar credit card bills in 2009. The former, Jon Seale, received notice that he owed a 17-figure sum that totaled almost 2,000 times the US national debt: 23 quadrillion, 148 trillion, 855 billion, 308 million, 184 thousand and 500 dollars. The other, Josh Muszynski, was charged 23 quadrillion after buying a pack of cigarettes at a gas station. |
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03-26-2011, 06:27 PM
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 Madonna vergine bugiarda. Poster Rank:443 Male Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 2,608 2,608Posts 1,385Thanked 11Quoted 0Mentioned 0Contrib. |
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Re: Ohio Man Gets a $16.4 Million Cable Bill
I got a bill for $0.01 once, never paid it, got fines and everything added to it, never paid them, then found I couldn't get a credit card, despite having a stack on money in the bank. Kill all bankers and just what would the world lose? |
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03-27-2011, 08:33 PM
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Re: Ohio Man Gets a $16.4 Million Cable Bill
Sixteen-million dollars? Is that all? No problem. Let me just get a few suitcases from the house and head over to the bank.  |
